Telecom

As Macedonia's Special Prosecution, SJO, struggles to trawl the servers of Macedonian Telecom/Makedonski Telekom in search of evidence of unlawful wiretapping, Deutsche Telecom - its parent company - told Deutsche Welle in Bonn that allegations of non-cooperation with the search are untrue.

The state's 5 percent stake in OTE telecom is to be transferred from the Finance Ministry to state sell-off fund TAIPED as early as on Friday.

The only matter that remains outstanding is the decision of the ministerial committee for restructuring and privatizations for the transfer of those 24,507,520 shares.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said efforts were underway to resolve debt repayment problems at the main shareholder in partly state-owned Türk Telekom, including a formula to "permanently" overcome the difficulties.

You have seen it on the news, you have watched the commercials: Türk Telekom has merged into one entity by merging with Avea and TTNET, becoming the biggest telecommunications company in Turkey. 

Berlin’s trendy Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district is home to the world’s smallest disco – ‘Teledisko’. The coin-operated venue created by German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom is a repurposed phone booth and can only accomodate two people at a time. Only you and your chosen friends can enter the yellow parted place.

Rasim Ljajic on Monday announced that that six bids had arrived for the privatization of the state-owned telecommunications company Telekom Srbija.

But the minister of trade and communications, speaking for the provincial public broadcaster in Vojvodina, RTV, "could not say who had delivered bids to purchase a majority stake in Telekom," the Beta agency is reporting.

China Telecom is interested in buying Serbia's state-owned telecommunications company Telekom Srbija (Serbia).

The first meeting has been held with representatives of this Chinese company at the Serbian government, said Tatjana Matic, state secretary at the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications.

Senior Macedonian politicians have dismissed new court testimony that alleges they took huge bribes in relation to Deutsche Telecom.

Economy Minister Zeljko Sertic said on Tuesday there was interest in the privatization of Serbia's state-owned telecommunications company Telekom Srbija.

The list of bidders includes both companies and investment funds, he told B92.

The Democratic Party of Serbia and the right-wing movement Dveri said on Friday that government's decision to sell Telekom was "scandalous", insisting there was no economic reason for selling a company that earns millions of euros annually.